On Broadway: Old Gal in Town

Legend has it that Marlene Dietrich once
had a record made consisting of nothing but snippets of applause from
her triumphal concerts in Europe. Opening a six-week run of her
one-woman show in Manhattan last week, Marlene garnered enough adoring
acclaim to make an album. The bravos began before the curtain rose, and
there were screams of joy after every encore as ecstatic young men in
tight trousers pranced down the aisles to toss bouquets of roses upon
the stage.

In truth, Dietrich doesn't do badly for a 65-year-old grandmothereven
though she stands on stage as rigidly expressionless as Ed...